David E. Nye Books
America'S Assembly Line
By David E. Nye
From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation.The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and...
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Electrifying America
By David E. Nye
How did electricity enter everyday life in America? Using Muncie, Indiana - the Lynds' now iconic Middletown - as a touchstone, David Nye explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American...
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American Technological Sublime
By David E. Nye
technology Has Long Played A Central Role In The Formation Of Americans' Sense Of Selfhood. From The First Canal Systems Through The Moon Landing, Americans Have, For Better Or Worse, Derived Unity...
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Consuming Power
By David E. Nye
Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that th...
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America As Second Creation
By David E. Nye
An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land.After 1776, the former American colonies began to rei...
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Technology Matters
Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from...
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Henry Ford: Ignorant Idealist
By David E. Nye, Nye, David E., 1946-
ix, 147 pages ; 23 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index
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Narratives And Spaces: Technology And The Construction Of American Culture
By David E. Nye
David E. Nye. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [191]-218) And Index.
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The World Of The Tent-Makers: A Natural History Of The Eastern Tent Caterpillar
By V. G Dethier, Abigail Rorer, David E. Nye, Vincent Gaston Dethier, Vincent G. Dethier
Study of the life cycle of a colony of eastern tent caterpillars. This book traces this insect's special life history within the total context of nature, discussing both the larger and smaller worl...
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